Author, as appears in the article.: Condeixa, Karina Qualharini, Eduardo Boer, Dieter Haddad, Assed
Department: Enginyeria Mecànica
e-ISSN: 1937-0709
URV's Author/s: Boer, Dieter-Thomas
Keywords: Waste management Masonry Life cycle impact assessment Lca Impact Environmental assessment Drywall Construction Climate change Building construction
Abstract: Life Cycle Assessment is a methodology that investigates impacts linked to a product or service during its entire life cycle. Life Cycle Assessment studies investigate processes and sub-processes in a fragmented way to ascertain their inputs, outputs and emissions and get an overview of the generating sources of their environmental loads. The lifecycle concept involves all direct and indirect processes of the studied object. This article aims to model the material flows in the masonry and drywall systems and internal walls in a Brazilian scenario, and calculate the climate change impacts generated by the transport of the component materials of the systems. Internal walls of a residential dwelling in Rio de Janeiro are analyzed from a qualitative inventory of all life cycles with an analysis of material flows, based on technical and academic literature. All Life Cycle Impact Assessment of the systems is carried out with international data from the database, and using the IPCC2013 method for climate change impacts. This study disregards the refurbishment and possible extensions within the use phase. Thus, the inventory identifies weaknesses of the systems while the impact assessment validates the results. This study allows us a complete understanding about the inner walls systems in the Brazilian scenario, evidencing its main weaknesses and subsidizes decision-making for the industry and for planning of the new buildings.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Renewable energy, sustainability and the environment Medicina i Management, monitoring, policy and law Interdisciplinar Historia Hardware and architecture Green & sustainable science & technology Geography, planning and development Geografía Geociências Environmental studies Environmental sciences Environmental science (miscellaneous) Ensino Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Enfermagem Energy engineering and power technology Education Computer science (miscellaneous) Computer networks and communications Ciências agrárias i Building and construction Biotecnología Biodiversidade Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
ISSN: 19370709
Author's mail: dieter.boer@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-5532-6409
Last page: 7925
Record's date: 2024-09-07
Journal volume: 7
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/6/7904
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Sustainability. 7 (6): 7904-7925
APA: Condeixa, Karina Qualharini, Eduardo Boer, Dieter Haddad, Assed (2015). An Inquiry into the Life Cycle of Systems of Inner Walls: Comparison of Masonry and Drywall. Sustainability, 7(6), 7904-7925. DOI: 10.3390/su7067904
Article's DOI: 10.3390/su7067904
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2015
First page: 7904
Publication Type: Journal Publications